Hello all. I recently picked up an 03 4200 in a private sale with plenty of history. However, I've discovered an alarming fault already (typical!). On a couple of occasions following a motorway drive of 15-20 mins, when pulling up at the junction lights, the CC light has flickered a few times and the car gone from 1 straight into N. It's then gone straight into 1 on my asking, and continued normally for the rest of the journey.
However this morning, I had two issues. First, about 200m from the work car park following a long commute I took a sharp corner and the CC light flashed and the car didn't want to shift up out of third for a couple of seconds. I pulled up in the car park and it did the usual dropping into N out of 1, this time being reluctant to go back into first on asking (it didn't seem like it was attempting and failing, but rather refusing), and similarly when selecting reverse it wanted to go back into N. Took me about 30 seconds to reverse into my parking space because it kept leaving R or 1 and going into N, and then would go back into gear after a couple of requests. It doesn't feel like anything is slipping, and gear changes on the move seem perfect otherwise.
Now, the clutch according to the history has covered only about 7,000 miles. I have heard horror stories of them lasting only a short amount of time like that, but given that the average seems to be a fair bit higher, and nothing appears to be slipping, I'm going to guess that the clutch itself probably isn't at fault. I've done some reading of the forums and it sounds like this could be F1 pump related? Perhaps there's insufficient pressure and the car is dropping into N as a result? I'm hoping it's something like this and not the actuator, because I'd rather avoid the really big bills in my first few weeks of ownership!
Any ideas where to start?
However this morning, I had two issues. First, about 200m from the work car park following a long commute I took a sharp corner and the CC light flashed and the car didn't want to shift up out of third for a couple of seconds. I pulled up in the car park and it did the usual dropping into N out of 1, this time being reluctant to go back into first on asking (it didn't seem like it was attempting and failing, but rather refusing), and similarly when selecting reverse it wanted to go back into N. Took me about 30 seconds to reverse into my parking space because it kept leaving R or 1 and going into N, and then would go back into gear after a couple of requests. It doesn't feel like anything is slipping, and gear changes on the move seem perfect otherwise.
Now, the clutch according to the history has covered only about 7,000 miles. I have heard horror stories of them lasting only a short amount of time like that, but given that the average seems to be a fair bit higher, and nothing appears to be slipping, I'm going to guess that the clutch itself probably isn't at fault. I've done some reading of the forums and it sounds like this could be F1 pump related? Perhaps there's insufficient pressure and the car is dropping into N as a result? I'm hoping it's something like this and not the actuator, because I'd rather avoid the really big bills in my first few weeks of ownership!
Any ideas where to start?
